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Deployment Strategies: Rolling, Blue-Green, Canary & Argo Rollouts

Kubernetes native rolling update is one of several strategies. Blue-Green runs two full production environments simultaneously and switches traffic atomically. Canary routes a small percentage to the

Learning objectives

  • Explain the specific risk each deployment strategy (rolling, blue-green, canary) is designed to reduce, beyond the standard rolling update.
  • Explain what genuinely new capability Argo Rollouts adds that a bare Deployment can't provide on its own.
  • Choose an appropriate deployment strategy for a given risk tolerance and traffic-shifting requirement.

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Deployment Strategies: Rolling, Blue-Green, Canary & Argo Rollouts

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